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Amazon has hired 400k new employees this year. 400k. Plus overtime for existing workers. [1] They also paid covid bonuses until (I think) June. Oh, and they r
by LatteLazy 6y ago
Amazon has hired 400k new employees this year. 400k. Plus overtime for existing workers. [1]
They also paid covid bonuses until (I think) June.
Oh, and they raised their minimum wage from 11 to 15usd/h. [2]
Oh, and they are paying Christmas bonuses of 500mUSD [3]
That sounds like a company making real strides and helping a shit tonne of it's employees exactly at a time it could just yawn and not do anything.
[1]. https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazons-hires-248500-people-q3-jeff-bezos-challenges-large-employers-raise-minimum-wage/amp/ https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazons-hires-248500-people-q3...
[2]. https://www.wired.com/story/why-amazon-really-raised-minimum-wage/ https://www.wired.com/story/why-amazon-really-raised-minimum...
[3]. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55093821 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55093821
- onetimemanytime 6y ago>>That sounds like a company making real strides and helping a shit tonne of it's employees exactly at a time it could just yawn and not do anything. so Amazon is paying 400K employees even they don't need them or what? How many jobs has Amazon cost, directly (driving competitors out of business) or indirectly (people buying online?) Amazon hires because it needs employees. And fires them the minute it doesn't. A few hundred dollars when your chance of getting Covid is increased by orders of magnitude doesn't look like much of a bonus, but people have no choice.
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- LatteLazy 6y agoCovid might have killed a lot of retail jobs this year, but I don't think you can blame amazon for that...